Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA): regulatory returns

What this page covers

All 199 returns APRA lists for the industries it supervises: 198 reporting standards plus the HRF 520.0 responsible persons form. The list is taken from APRA’s five industry pages of prudential and reporting standards (banking, general insurance, life insurance and friendly societies, private health insurance and superannuation), which list 192 reporting standards and two reporting forms, plus the six National Claims and Policies Database standards (GRS 800.1 to 800.3 and LOLRS 800.1 to 800.3) that APRA lists on its NCPD page. The ARF 210.5 daily liquidity form is recorded as a template of ARS 210.0. Each standard was matched to its legislative instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation; every instrument recorded is in force on the register. For LRS 112.3, 114.2, 114.3 and 340.0, APRA’s page links instruments that the register shows as repealed, so the current instruments (F2026L01470, F2026L01471, F2026L01472 and F2023L00717) are used. Left out: revoked standards; SRS 711.0 SuperStream Benchmarking Measures, which ceased to apply after 30 June 2019; RRS 710.0, which applies only to registered financial corporations (APRA lists these under non-regulated industry); draft standards still out for consultation (such as the Retirement Reporting Framework standards and the July 2026 minor updates); ad hoc data requests that are not reporting standards (such as ARF 923.1, ARF 923.5, the Restricted ADI form ARF 199.0 and the Advanced Illiquidity Premium template); Form 701 intermediated insurance data, which APRA collects from financial services licensees under the Corporations Act; and prudential applications and notifications. Source

How firms file

• APRA Connect

  APRA’s data collection portal where regulated entities lodge entity information and returns. Entities can upload XML files (checked against APRA’s published XSD), upload Excel files using APRA’s templates, or enter data manually; myID is required to sign in. During 2026 APRA moved the collections from its legacy Direct to APRA (D2A) system to APRA Connect. Source

• Alternate Submission Process (temporary)

  Temporary route APRA introduced after decommissioning D2A: firms complete their returns as XML (preferred), XBRL or Excel files and upload them to APRA Connect as an ad hoc ZIP submission. APRA ended it for most ADI collections from the 30 September 2026 reporting period; for other industries firms can opt out of APRA Connect return by return while collections migrate. Source

Data the APRA publishes from the returns

• Monthly Authorised Deposit-taking Institution Statistics (MADIS)

  Firm by firm · Excel (current month and back series from March 2019)

  Selected balance sheet items (assets, loans, deposits) for individual ADIs in the domestic market, released monthly; credit unions and building societies with total assets below $200 million are left out. The explanatory notes say the data come from the EFS returns ARF 720.0, 720.1, 720.2, 720.3 and 720.6. Source

  From: ARS 720.0, ARS 720.1, ARS 720.2, ARS 720.3, ARS 720.6, ARS 701.0

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• ADI centralised publication (ADICP)

  Firm by firm · Excel (March 2013 onwards)

  Key capital and liquidity figures for each ADI, released quarterly with the quarterly ADI statistics. The explanatory notes name ARF 110.0 Capital Adequacy and ARF 210.1A, 210.2 and 210.6 (liquidity ratios) as sources. Source

  From: ARS 110.0, ARS 210.0

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• Quarterly ADI performance statistics (QADIP)

  Added up across firms · Excel (September 2004 onwards)

  Industry totals for ADIs: financial performance and position, capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity and key ratios, quarterly. The explanatory notes list the source returns, including ARF 110.0, 210.x, 220.0, 322.0, 323.0, 330.x and the EFS forms 720.0 to 720.6. Source

  From: ARS 110.0, ARS 210.0, ARS 220.0, ARS 322.0, ARS 323.0, ARS 330.0, ARS 330.1, ARS 330.2, ARS 330.3, ARS 720.0, ARS 720.1, ARS 720.2, ARS 720.3, ARS 720.6

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• Quarterly ADI property exposures statistics

  Added up across firms · Excel

  Industry totals for commercial property exposures, residential mortgages outstanding and new mortgage approvals, quarterly. Sources named in the notes: ARF 230.0 Commercial Property and ARF 223.0 Residential Mortgage Lending. Source

  From: ARS 230.0, ARS 223.0

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• ADI points of presence statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel (June 2017 onwards)

  Annual listing of physical banking service channels (branches, other face-to-face outlets, Bank@Post, ATMs and EFTPOS) by sector, institution and location. The file notes say it is based on ARS 796.0 Points of Presence since June 2017. Source

  From: ARS 796.0

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• Quarterly general insurance performance statistics

  Added up across firms · Excel database and specifications

  Industry totals for general insurers: financial performance and position, investments and capital adequacy, by class of business and state, quarterly. The specifications file maps each published item to its source reporting standard. Source

  From: GRS 110.0, GRS 112.0, GRS 114.0, GRS 114.1, GRS 114.4, GRS 115.0, GRS 115.1, GRS 116.0, GRS 300.0, GRS 310.0, GRS 310.3, GRS 311.0, GRS 420.0, GRS 600.0

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• Quarterly life insurance performance statistics

  Added up across firms · Excel database and specifications

  Industry totals for life insurers: financial performance and position and capital adequacy, by product group, quarterly. The specifications file maps each item to its source reporting standard. Source

  From: LRS 110.0, LRS 112.0, LRS 200.0, LRS 300.0, LRS 310.0, LRS 311.0

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• Quarterly private health insurance performance statistics

  Added up across firms · Excel database and specifications

  Industry totals for private health insurers: financial performance and position and capital adequacy, quarterly. The specifications file maps each item to its source reporting standard. Source

  From: HRS 101.0, HRS 110.0, HRS 112.0, HRS 300.0, HRS 310.0

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• Annual private health insurance statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel

  Financial performance and position for each private health insurer, plus membership and benefits data, annually. The data specifications name HRS 101.0, HRS 300.0 and HRS 310.0. Source

  From: HRS 101.0, HRS 300.0, HRS 310.0

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• Life insurance claims and disputes statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel (June 2018 onwards)

  Industry and insurer-level data on life insurance claims and disputes, twice a year. The explanatory notes refer to LRS 750.0 for definitions. Source

  From: LRS 750.0

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• Annual fund-level superannuation statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel (June 2004 onwards)

  Profile, financial performance and position, conditions of release, fees and membership for each superannuation fund, annually. The explanatory notes list the source forms, including SRF 001.0, 320.0, 330.0, 540.0, 610.0, 610.1 and 710.0; some tables now use SRS 611.0 data. Source

  From: SRS 001.0, SRS 320.0, SRS 330.0, SRS 540.0, SRS 610.0, SRS 610.1, SRS 710.0, SRS 611.0

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• Annual MySuper statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel (June 2014 onwards)

  Profile, performance, fees and membership for each MySuper product, annually. Sources named in the notes: SRF 001.0, 330.2, 533.0, 540.0 and 610.2; some tables now use SRS 611.0 and SRS 550.0 data. Source

  From: SRS 001.0, SRS 330.2, SRS 533.0, SRS 540.0, SRS 610.2, SRS 611.0, SRS 550.0

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• Quarterly MySuper statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel (September 2013 onwards)

  Product profile, asset allocation targets, investment performance, net returns and fees for each MySuper product or lifecycle stage, quarterly. The glossary refers to SRS 700.0 Product Dashboard. Source

  From: SRS 700.0

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• Quarterly fund-level superannuation statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel and CSV database (zip)

  Member demographics and total investments by asset sector for each APRA-regulated fund with more than six members, quarterly. Tables cite SRF 611.0 and SRF 550.1 items. Source

  From: SRS 611.0, SRS 550.0

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• Quarterly Superannuation Industry Publication (QSIP)

  Added up across firms · Excel and CSV

  Industry data on superannuation products, investment options, member demographics and investments, quarterly. The notes refer to SRS 605.0 and SRS 606.0. Source

  From: SRS 605.0, SRS 606.0

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• Quarterly Superannuation Product Statistics (QSPS)

  Firm by firm · Excel and CSV (large files)

  Lists every product, investment menu and investment option of each APRA-regulated fund, with fees and costs, performance, strategy and asset allocation, quarterly. APRA says it uses the Superannuation Data Transformation phase 1 reporting standards; the page does not name them one by one. Source

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• National Claims and Policies Database (NCPD) statistics

  Added up across firms · Zip files of masked reports

  Masked policy, claims, Lloyd’s and facility reports on public and product liability and professional indemnity insurance, built from the NCPD collection (GRS 800.x and LOLRS 800.x). Source

  From: GRS 800.1, GRS 800.2, GRS 800.3, LOLRS 800.1, LOLRS 800.2, LOLRS 800.3

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• Annual general insurance institution-level statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel

  Financial performance, position and capital adequacy for each general insurer, insurance group and Lloyd’s Australia. The latest edition covers to June 2023; next release to be advised. Source returns are not named on the page. Source

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• Life insurance institution-level statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel

  Financial performance, position and capital adequacy for each life insurer. The latest edition covers to June 2023; next release to be advised. Source returns are not named on the page. Source

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• Private health insurance risk equalisation statistics

  Firm by firm · Excel

  Net risk equalisation result for each insurer for the financial year, from audited calculations that use the quarterly benefits and policy data insurers give APRA. The specific reporting standard is not named. Source

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Reuse terms for the APRA's documents

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), checked 11 November 2026. In the APRA's words:

All material presented on this website is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, with the exception of: the Commonwealth Coat of Arms; the APRA and APRA Connect logos; and other third party material which is protected by intellectual property law. APRA requests attribution as: © Australian Prudential Regulation Authority 2024.

Can others share copies?

Allowed with conditions.

Conditions

Attribute APRA (APRA asks for © Australian Prudential Regulation Authority 2024) and follow the CC BY 4.0 terms (credit, link to the licence, say if changes were made). The Commonwealth Coat of Arms, the APRA and APRA Connect logos and third-party material are excluded.

What the library does

Keeps copies of the documents, as the terms allow. APRA licenses all material on apra.gov.au under CC BY 4.0, which allows copying and redistribution with attribution. The reporting standard PDFs recorded here come from the Federal Register of Legislation, whose copyright page could not be read (see gaps); confirm its terms before mirroring those files.

Notice the APRA's terms ask for: © Australian Prudential Regulation Authority 2024. Material from APRA (https://www.apra.gov.au) is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); this library summarises it in plain English and links the originals.

What could not be verified

Said plainly, so nobody relies on a fact the sources do not give.

• Federal Register of Legislation copyright page (https://www.legislation.gov.au/copyright) builds its text with JavaScript, so the reuse terms for the reporting standard PDFs taken from the register were not read.
• The PDF of SRS 610.0 (https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2017L00729/asmade/2017-06-22/text/original/pdf) returned HTTP 500 on several tries on 2026-11-11; the Word version of the same instrument is recorded instead. Other register PDFs also returned occasional 500 or timeout errors before succeeding.
• Final new versions of ARS 110.0, GRS 115.0, 115.1, 116.0, 115.0.G, 115.1.G, 116.0.G, SRS 101.0, 533.0 and 610.2, and the revocation of SRS 001.0, were published by APRA but not found on the Federal Register of Legislation on 2026-11-11; these returns are marked being replaced and link APRA’s final PDFs.
• How SRS 520.0 and HRF 520.0 (responsible persons), LRS 750.0 (claims and disputes) and ARS 920.0 are lodged since D2A was decommissioned is not stated on APRA’s migration pages; formats for these are recorded as unconfirmed.
• NCPD submission format: APRA’s NCPD page sends contributors to www.ncpd.apra.gov.au, which was not checked.
• Validation rule counts for collections not yet in an APRA Connect taxonomy (ARS 325.0, ARS 920.x, SRS 001.0, 520.0, 533.0, 610.2, 801.0, 802.0 and HRF 520.0) come from APRA’s legacy D2A rules file of June 2025, which APRA keeps for reference only.
• APRA Connect taxonomy Rules worksheets for native collections give rule IDs, types and plain-English definitions but no executable expressions; expressions are published only for collections migrated from D2A.
• The source returns of the Quarterly Superannuation Product Statistics, the institution-level general and life insurance statistics and the private health insurance risk equalisation statistics are not named on APRA’s pages, so these datasets are not linked to specific returns.
• The D2A decommission notice given in the brief at https://www.apra.gov.au/direct-apra-security-update-and-accelerated-decommission answers 404; the notice is at https://www.apra.gov.au/news-and-publications/direct-apra-security-update-and-accelerated-decommission.

Sources

• APRA: Banking prudential and reporting standards
• APRA: General insurance prudential and reporting standards
• APRA: Life insurance prudential and reporting standards
• APRA: Private health insurance prudential and reporting standards
• APRA: Superannuation prudential and reporting standards
• APRA: National Claims and Policies Database
• APRA Connect
• APRA Connect Taxonomy Artefacts
• Migrating D2A Collections Support Material
• Alternative submission arrangements for D2A collections
• Frequently Asked Questions - D2A to APRA Connect Migration
• Direct to APRA security update and accelerated decommission (media release, 27 March 2026)
• End of Alternate Submission Process for ADIs and RFCs (letter, 27 July 2026)
• Validation and derivation rules for data submitted via D2A
• APRA statistical publications
• APRA copyright
• Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001

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